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Industry Stalwarts Jury

1. Each team shall consist of a maximum of 3 members, including:

  • 1 CXO-level representative (e.g., CISO, CTO, CIO, Head of Security, etc.)
  • Up to 2 supporting team members (engineering, security, compliance, or IT professionals)

2. All members must be from the same organization. Inter-organization teams are not allowed.

3. Each organization can nominate a maximum of 2 teams.

4. Team name should be unique, and must not include your company name or any version of 'Cywayz'.

Problem Statements

PS ID-01
Cyber Budget Optimization

Explore frameworks for allocating cybersecurity spend against risk, demonstrate ROI metrics for tools and personnel, and share real-world cost-vs-benefit analyses.

PS ID-02
Board-Level Strategy

Outline your Security Operations Center's structure—technology stack, staffing model, SIEM/UEBA integration—and highlight how 24X7 monitoring and threat hunting capabilities align with business objectives.

PS ID-03
Risk Management Framework Integration

Show how you embedded a formal risk framework (e.g., ISO 27001, NIST CSF) into board reporting—linking cyber risks to strategic goals, compliance obligations, and enterprise-wide risk registers.

PS ID-04
Cybersecurity Metrics & KPIs for the Board

Present a dashboard of critical KPIs (MTTR, dwell time, incident volume, budget variance) and explain how you distilled operational data into simple, actionable board-level insights.

PS ID-05
Cloud Security Investment Strategies

Detail your approach to funding cloud security initiatives—covering identity, data protection, and workload posture management—and the business case that justified shifting resources to IaaS/PaaS environments.

PS ID-06
AI/ML-Driven Threat Detection

Describe the pilot or rollout of AI/ML tools in your SOC, the upfront investment and ongoing costs, and the measurable improvement in detection accuracy or analyst efficiency that you reported to the board.

PS ID-07
Cyber Insurance & Financial Resilience

Share your risk-transfer strategy: selecting insurers, negotiating premiums, defining coverage limits, and integrating cyber insurance metrics into the overall risk financing plan presented at board level.

PS ID-08
Governance & Compliance Roadmap

Map out your multi-year plan for achieving and maintaining compliance (e.g., GDPR, PDPL, PCI-DSS), including phased investments, milestone KPIs, and governance structures you’ve placed under the board’s purview.

PS ID-09
Cyber Security for AI/ML

Implement end-to-end protections across the AI/ML lifecycle: enforce data lineage and integrity checks; conduct adversarial robustness and poisoning tests; secure training and inference with encryption and isolated environments; deploy runtime anomaly detection for model drift and inference attacks; maintain audit trails, explainability, and governance controls; and integrate MLOps security pipelines to prevent unauthorized access and model exfiltration.

PS ID-10
Third-Party & Supply-Chain Blind Spots

Boards often approve supplier contracts without fully understanding cascading cyber risks—e.g., how a vendor breach could compromise critical data or operations.

PS ID-11
Talent Shortage & Skill Gaps

Recruiting and retaining skilled security analysts, threat hunters, and architects remains a perennial challenge—especially for 24×7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs).

PS ID-12
Operationalizing Cyber Strategy

Translating board-approved cyber budgets and policies into day-to-day controls, processes, and measurable KPIs (e.g., patch cadence, incident response playbook maturity).

PS ID-13
Ransomware readiness

Implement an AI-enhanced resilience program with immutable, automated backups and recovery validation; proactive threat hunting for pre-encryption indicators; adaptive micro-segmentation to contain lateral movement; integrated SIEM/XDR alerts for anomalous file-encryption behavior; executive tabletop simulations with negotiation and legal playbooks; and cyber-insurance alignment for streamlined claims and rapid recovery.

PS ID-14
Supply Chain Management

Implementing continuous monitoring and contract clauses that enforce minimum-security requirements for partners, vendors, and supply-chain entities.

PS ID-15
ESG & Cyber Security

Embed cybersecurity KPIs into environmental, social, and governance frameworks to enhance investor confidence and meet evolving disclosure standards.

PS ID-16
Quantum-Safe Architecture

Roadmap to Post-Quantum Cryptography Outline phased adoption of quantum-resistant algorithms across critical systems, estimate budget impacts, and present a mitigation timeline aligned with global standardization efforts.

PS ID-17
SaaS Selection Strategy

Establish a rigorous vendor evaluation framework—assess security posture, data residency, compliance certifications, integration ease, and SLA robustness—to ensure SaaS solutions align with enterprise risk appetite and drive operational efficiency.

PS ID-18
Managing Evolving Threat Landscape

Implement a continuous threat-intelligence program—leverage global feeds, predictive analytics, and red teaming—to anticipate emerging attack vectors, prioritize defenses, and report shifting risk profiles to the board.

PS ID-19
Digital Transformation Pressures Handling

Embed security into agile delivery—integrate DevSecOps practices, enforce API and cloud configuration standards, and monitor shadow IT—to accelerate innovation while maintaining robust risk controls.

PS ID-20
Regulatory & Compliance Mandates Management

Map all applicable regulations (GDPR, PDPL, PCI-DSS, industry-specific mandates) to a centralized GRC framework, define clear ownership, and present audit-readiness metrics and remediation roadmaps at board level.

PS ID-21
Balancing Security & Business

Translate security investments into business enablers—align controls with revenue goals, quantify risk reduction versus opportunity cost, and illustrate how security underpins customer trust and market competitiveness.

PS ID-22
Data Privacy Implementation Strategy

Design a privacy-by-design program—catalog data flows, enforce classification and access policies, deploy consent-management tooling, and track key privacy metrics to demonstrate compliance and build stakeholder confidence.

Timeline of Event

date of presentation

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I register for the CXO Chef? 
Participants can directly register their team for the CXO Chef via Click Here
What will be the mode of CXO Chef?
The grand finale will be conducted offline, and the venue and pass will be mailed to the shortlisted team
What is the criteria for ideas selection?

Your corporate best practices on cybersecurity/AI solution will be evaluated on:

  • Innovation, feasibility, and scalability
  • Strategic clarity & vision
  • Business impact & outcome metrics
  • Relevance to modern threats/compliance
  • CXO usability
  • CXO communication style and leadership

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